Sidewalk Prophets Announces Christmas Tour

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Sidewalk Prophets Announces Christmas Tour

2023-10-02T11:41:33+01:00

By Church News

Sidewalk Prophets is excited to announce their 5^th annual “Great Big Family Christmas Tour,” a night of celebration and memory-making with loved ones, kicking off on the 1st of December, 2023.“Year after year this tour continues to blow us away, and just keeps getting better,” shared Sidewalk Prophets frontman Dave Frey. “This year is going to be our fullest Christmas tour schedule yet, and we can’t wait to get out there and make new memories with fans across the country.”The “Great Big Family Christmas Tour” is a night of celebration geared towards making memories with family and loved ones. The show will hit 14 cities this Christmas season, making it the biggest “Great Big Family Christmas Tour” the Sidewalk Prophets has ever done. In its first four years, the tour raised over $250,000 for those in need during the holiday season, with a goal to gift $1 million by its 10^th annual Christmas show.Sidewalk Prophets is an American contemporary Christian music band from Nashville. Their album These Simple Truths contained the single “The Words I Would Say” which is also featured on WOW Hits 2010 and WOW Hits 2011. The group won the 2010 GMA Dove Award for New Artist of the Year.The band was formed by lead singer Dave Frey and rhythm guitarist Ben McDonald when the two were attending Anderson University in Indiana.A demo they recorded was taken without their knowledge to a campus recording contest, which earned them a performance slot. That in turn, led to radio program directors and record labels, and a chance encounter with Audio Adrenaline’s Will McGinnis gave Dave the chance to sing in front of 20,000.The group landed a deal with Word Records after meeting with a record label executive and a showcasing themselves at Lancaster Christian Academy in Smyrna, Tennessee. It also features lead guitarist Shaun Tomczak, bassist Cal Joslin, and drummer Justin Nace. Tomczak left the band in January 2014 to spend time with his family, and Daniel Macal joined the band to take his place. Other past members of the group are guitarist Chris Jordan and bassist Chris Koboldt.They have toured with Jeremy Camp and Audio Adrenaline on the strength of independent albums, then rode the popularity of their first Word Records release, These Simple Truths, to a Dove Award for New Artist of the Year and a nomination for Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year.“The Words I Would Say” reached No. 3, “You Can Have Me” entered the Top 20, a Christmas single, “Hope Was Born This Night”, reached the Top 10, and “You Love Me Anyway” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Singles chart. The band has also toured in the Rock and Worship Roadshow with MercyMe and Francesca Battistelli among others, and received another Dove nomination for Group of the Year in 2011.ALSO READ: The First Catholic Co-Cathedral in the British Isles